Yanowitch is currently an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Since 2005, he has been investigating and prosecuting cybercrime, intellectual property crimes, fraud and economic crimes, export violations, identity theft and other federal offenses. He has won awards such as the Attorney General Award for Excellence in Furthering U.S. National Security Interests in 2003, and the Inspector General Award of Merit in 2002. Yanowitch has worked in higher education, teaching criminal law at Baylor University, and has held a number of other positions within the Department of Justice.

Law enforcement agencies have gained incredible clarity into the perpetrators of fraud, their motives and methods as well as their victims, the cost to the industry and developing trends. But to effectively investigate and prosecute these crimes, public-sector organizations need to better understand the driving...

Retail breaches are endemic in the U.S. primarily due to the lack of effective, in-person payment card security. As the rest of the world has embraced EMV, perhaps there is an opportunity for the U.S. to leapfrog even that significant level of security with technologies such as tokenization (as employed in the...